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“format C:” versus “rm -rf /”

Posted in All on November 18th, 2004 · No Comments

Jokes about “format C:” and “rm -rf /” are pretty frequent in the computer universe. These two commands will supposedely remove all data from the hard disk - one on DOS/Windows and another on UNIX operating systems. While widely used, this might not be exactly true. This guy has tried both and documented the results.

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